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There are 15 medalists – two gold, five silver and eight bronze – down from 25 in 2012, primarily due to rising No Child Left Behind goals.

Eleven of the medal-winning schools met all No Child Left Behind testing targets; four did not.

Poverty rates correlated roughly with ranking success, with the medal-winning schools having an average student poverty rate of 31.4 percent, while the other campuses' average poverty rate was 49.7 percent.

Of the 20 districts with middle schools, 10 received medals, representing locations across the county.

Most winning districts had just one school qualify for a medal; Fountain Valley, Garden Grove and Tustin each had two; Irvine had three.

The average Academic Performance Index for all ranked Orange County middle schools was 847, 13 points higher than in 2011.

Roughly 43 percent of all eighth-graders were proficient in Algebra I, with some also proficient in Algebra II and Geometry.

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